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New Titles from Self-Publishers
This issue of PW Select marks the first in our now bimonthly frequency—that is, six times a year, rather than quarterly—allowing us to keep up with the growing swell of self-publishing that is transforming the industry.
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PW Select December 2012: All Our Coverage
The latest news on self-publishing, plus 40 new book reviews.
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PW Select December 2012: The Reviews
This month's installment of PW Select self-published print and e-books.
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PW Select December 2012: Wattpad Revolutionizes Online Storytelling
“We want to spread the written word to billions of people. That’s our mission,” says Allen Lau. He’s a serial entrepreneur and the cofounder of Wattpad, the Toronto-based free online community for writers.
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PW Select December 2012: A Record Number of Titles, Led by Juvenile Fiction
This is the last of our quarterly supplements. Beginning in February, PW Select will be published six times a year, reflecting the continued boom in self-publishing.
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PW Select December 2012: On Readers’ Radar
Self-published authors may not have the publicity and distribution apparatus of a major publishing house, but as social media has evolved they are finding more ways than ever to garner new readers.
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PW Select December 2012: DIY from Down Under: PW Talks with Walter Renfrey
Australian author Walter Renfrey self-published his first YA novel, Five Nights to the Crimson Moon, through CreateSpace in November.
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PW Select December 2012: Miami Advice
The Miami Books Fair is one of the nation’s marquee literary events, a bustling weeklong consumer fair held every November for the past 29 years, featuring hundreds of authors and events, as well as exhibits from publishers and booksellers.
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Self-Published Title Wins Mississippi Author Award
Stokes McMillan's self-published book, One Night of Madness, was named winner of the 2012 Mississippi Author Award.
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Self-Published YA Author 'Crash'es into the Big League
HarperCollins has scooped up rights to self-published writer Nicole Williams's Crash trilogy, and will release the three books in paperback as well as in e-book form.
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S&S Nabs Bestselling Self-Published Series Wool
Simon & Schuster has acquired North American rights to Hugh Howey's self-published science fiction series, Wool.
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The Bestselling Self-Published Kindle Books of 2012
Fifteen e-books with self-publishing origins are in Amazon’s Kindle top 100 overall for 2012.
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Tracking Amazon: Self-Pubbed Romance Sales Fall Following Penguin Sale
Samantha Young's On Dublin Street spent weeks atop Amazon's Kindle chart, which culminated in a seven-figure sale to Penguin earlier this month.
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Geragotelis, S&S Prepare to Release 'Life's a Witch' Prequel
Brittany Geragotelis, who landed a three-book, six-figure deal with S&S after a PW story about her self-published YA debut, Life's a Witch, will publish a prequel with S&S, called What The Spell.
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Penguin Divisions Team Up to Buy Self-Pubbed Bestseller 'Easy'
In an acquisition that brings together two Penguin imprints, Berkley Books and Penguin Young Readers Group have jointly acquired Tammara Webber's self-published novel Easy.
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PW Select October 2012: All Our Coverage
The latest news on self-publishing, plus more than 40 new book reviews.
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PW Select October 2012: The Reviews
This month's installment of PW Select self-published print and e-books.
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Self-Publishing for ‘Dangerous Women’
Kim Krizan is an Academy Award–nominated screenwriter (with Richard Linklater, for Before Sunset), a popular graphic novel writer (Zombie Tales: 2061), and an actress who has appeared in three Linklater films: Dazed and Confused, Slacker, and Waking Life. In addition to all the Hollywood glitter, Krizan’s got literary/academic chops as well: she’s an Anaïs Nin expert with a master’s degree in literature (her thesis examined the psychology of creativity).
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DIY Titles: More and More E-books
With our eighth PW Select we complete two years of quarterly presentations of self-published titles and reviews. As of next year, PW Select will appear bimonthly, that is, six times a year, beginning in February.
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Robin Lamont: Help Along the Way
“The biggest challenge in self-publishing is marketing. Anyone can create a book and get it up on Amazon. Getting it to sell, as anyone in the book industry knows, is another story.”
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